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Not long ago, the media made us listen to mind-numbing stories about the "balloon boy." This week they've given us hours of useless information about a five-chapter book written by another publicity hound named Sarah Palin. Where is Walter Cronkite when you need him?

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Why do people make a big deal out of Palin's so-called lack of experience when she has had 100 times more than President Obama? Oh, yeah — Obama is a great speaker.

How could terrorist remain in Army?

I am very saddened that our military, FBI and perhaps others dropped the ball on the terrorist stationed at Fort Hood.

How could the alleged shooter, who was being investigated as suspicious and sympathetic toward suicide bombers, be allowed to remain in the service?

Liberals are still attacking Sarah Palin a year after the election. They are afraid a good choice will be made next time.

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I hope Palin does run for president in 2012. Maybe after she loses, again, she will take the hint and go away and take her theocracy supporters with her.

Now we can say, with no real doubt, that the Obama administration has suffered its first major foreign policy failure, and it's hard to see a way to recover.

In fact, the administration's Middle East strategy has been nothing short of a debacle, born of inexplicable naivete. Couldn't they see that previous presidents, going back more than two decades, had asked Israeli and Arab leaders to make exactly the same "gestures" — and none of those presidents had succeeded?

Certainly it is laudable that a new president plunged into this, the oldest major festering sore of the modern world, weeks after taking office. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter all paid lip service to the issue until late in their terms. Every one of them realized that the problem was so fraught, the chance of success so faint, that the most likely outcome of any major effort was embarrassment.